The March talk for NU's Campus Conversations series is "Right-Mixing for Optimal Student Engagement: MBA Program Redesign as Impetus for Rethinking Learning Environments" with Tawnya Means, assistant dean and director of the College of Business Teaching and Learning Center, on March 29 at 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. in the Nebraska Union, Colonial Rooms A&B.
Online and blended learning offer exciting opportunities to enhance and right-size education, increase access to knowledge and expertise, and provide greater flexibility for students, instructors, and institutions. Relying simply on technology is not sufficient to change teaching. The philosopher Martin Heidegger noted that “Teaching is even more difficult than learning... because what teaching calls for is this; to let learn.” In order to let learning happen, teachers must create an environment that facilitates the delivery of content, while balancing student interaction with content, instructor, and peers, and protecting the integrity of the learning experience. The challenge is to determine what to teach when and where, with the right activity in the right space at the right time.
Using the frame of reference for redesigning the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Business Online MBA, Dr. Tawnya Means will share the resulting changes in instructor presence, student engagement and interaction, course structure, look, and feel, and academic integrity and assessment. Through examples shared from using tools to support synchronous and asynchronous discussions, simulations, and content and video delivery, Dr. Means will guide participants through an exploration of technology-enhanced learning and promote a process to decide what to do in-person, what to use technology to support, what happens best synchronously, in-person, or asynchronously, what aspects of the learning experience can be flexible, and how to protect the integrity of the program, with the intent to guide the decisions to right-mix the learning environment and experiences for students and to let learning happen.
Registration details are on the NU website. Contact Beverly Russell at brussell1@unl.edu with any questions.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/ec5g